Well surprise... no surprise? AT&T has officially filed in court to counter the Department of Justice's suit to stop the AT&T-T-Mobile merger. Their contention is that the government just doesn't understand what real competition is.

Uncle Sam says no to AT&T eating up T-Mobile: The Department of Justice has filed an antitrust…
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The Justice Department is, understandably, up in arms against the deal because it stands to stifle competition between carriers and slow innovation. AT&T disagree, since competing with T-Mobile was never a fair fight anyway. Ouch. T-Mo's been losing money in recent yeats, and isn't in a position to innovate. Meanwhile, AT&T's... been losing money, too, despite billions spent to grow out their infrastructure. But buying T-Mobile will allow them to provide better service, create more jobs, yada yada everything they've said before so they can skirt their inevitable network apocalypse.